One of the difficulties for university administrations defending their processes is that many decision-making deliberations, for example concerning admissions, appointments and handling of complaints, are considered confidential.
But he warned: "Sixteen-year-olds are facing unprecedented challenges at the moment as they hear a torrent of messages about the difficulty of accessing university places, increased tuition fees and youth unemployment.
Given the difficulty of finding university posts in linguistics at that time, I decided I would teach English as a foreign language and ended up in Freiburg in southern Germany teaching at various institutions.
Given the difficulties of moving between universities in Italy, Cosma decided it would be easier to go abroad rather than to work in another Italian university.
One of the difficulties facing this latest cohort of university leavers is that they are competing for jobs with graduates from earlier years who failed to find work during the downturn.
The heart of the difficulty, though, is the new group of university students.
However, with 69 per cent of university students having difficulty accessing treatment, Eating Disorders Awareness Week aims to challenge stereotypes, and improve both the support and awareness of the condition.
This novel method of cheating is a reflection of the difficulty of earning a university place in a country where some university engineering or medicine departments might take only one in 100 candidates.
However, the question is clouded by difficulties of definition: many originally urban universities have evolved into multi-location facilities, comprising several campus-like sites; and some urban universities locate their medical schools in these separate sites.
However, these benefits must be weighed against potential drawbacks; the financial burden of spending an additional year at university and possible difficulties of returning to medical studies, particularly if one has intercalated within the clinical years.
